Vintage Postcard of the Week - #4

#4 - Why do you stay out in the cold?

Sent from Lynn, Mass on Aug 23, 1906
to Passaic, New Jersey

*one of my favorites

Swap-bot 3: Books

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Only 1 swap partner in this one!

Terrasse de Cafe, Paris, 1950

Celine M. Tabary

Here's the  back with my list of top 10 books:

this is only a current list, made up on the spot. 

I'm not really one to have a set list of favorites. 

I did include a few of my favorites from when I was younger.

Sent 18 September 2012

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Swap-bot #2

Time to send out my second set of swap-bot postcards!

Quotecard Postcard #64

The Cage, 1885 by Berthe Morisot

sent to Annie in Michigan

Quote:

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

-Maya Angelou

The Sisters Zenaide and Charlotte Bonaparte, 1821

Jacques-Louis David

sent to Tanjalotta in Germany

quote:

"Here's all you need to know about men and women:

women are crazy and men are stupid.

And teh main reason women are crazy

is that men are stupid."

-George Carlin

Untitled, Charmion von Wieg

sent to Margaret in California

quote:

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen:

not only because I see it,

but because by it I see everything else."

-CS Lewis

sent 17 September 2012

My first one received:

Jackson Pollock, Pasiphae, 1943.

"The Perfect is the enemy of the good." - Voltaire
from swap-bot user corioloskat - also from Simi Valley!

Postcarden

What a fabulous idea!

Postcarden

Vintage Postcard of the Week - #3 - Windsor

#3 - Souvenir Folder from Windsor, Canada

The front:

The Back:

Inside:

I'm not really a fan of souvenir folders, so this one is up for grabs if anyone wants it.

A Walk at Dusk

A Walk at Dusk, ca. 1830-35

Caspar David Friedrich

sent to Helena in Portugal

18 September 2012

Symbology

***Boondock Saints fans will get the title of this post. Yes, it's intentional***

Another letter from Ms. Clara Bo!

received 09.09.2012

She's such a nice girl.

So I decided to draw her some symbols on my response letter:

sent 17.09.2012

And she said she liked the last envelope, so I made her an even cuter one:

ROBOTS!!!

I made her a bookmark to match the envelope, and I loved it so much I made one for myself, too :)

You can see the last Clara post here.

Quick and Safe Swap for Newbies

My very first swap at swap-bot!
Quick and Safe Swap for Newbies!

Here are the postcards I sent:

Manet to Ayesha in India

New Mexico map to Liz in Tennessee

Georgia O'Keefe to Fawn in Colorado

Here are the three I received:

"Friends are like the sunshine of life. Hold true friends with both your hands."
From Justine in Las Vegas

Histories
from Mary

And then this amazing package from Barbara:

The Envelope

the card

ATC

A big sticker!

A crochet pattern!

A lot of work must have gone into the envelope, card, and ATC. I love it!

Vladivostok

I love this old time photo postcard from Kaneste in Russia

Front:

Back:

The stamps are awesome! I also think it's neat when people write little tidbits like she did on the bottom: She wrote it on 15.08.12 (August 15, 2012) at 21:29 (9:29 pm), and it was Gloomy that day (25 C = 77 F).

Also, this took a month to get here! I picked it up from my PO Box on the 16th of September.

Susy-Card

From Rebecca in Paderborn, Germany

Postmarked 10 Sept 2012
She put cute stickers on the back too :)

It's a Susy Card.

Postcrossing DE-1541965.

Haapsalu

(please excuse the poor quality of my scanner)

How beautiful!

This is from Daire in Estonia.
"Warm sea water, curative mud and fresh air have made Haapsalu well-known for centuries. Only a hundred kilometers away from the capital, it's always been a loved summer resort in Estonia."

Sent via touchnote.me

100 ideas

I absolutely love Keri Smith's book Wreck this journal:

Here's mine:

(it's pretty raggedy)

what does this have to do with this blog? Well, here's one reason:

(when i'm done, I'll tape it shut and mail it to myself)

And here's another reason:

Page 89 - I must remember to do this!

More pages:

(Instruction #4: Instructions are open to interpretation. My plan was to steal fruit stickers, but it turns out that we get enough of them at home. Plus, I thought I was being funny)

Success.

I sprayed this page with my favorite perfume: Michael Kors. So now the entire journal smells fantastic :)

So what made me think to post about wreck this journal? Looking through my snail mail blogs, I came across This 100 Ideas post from theyearthepumpkinsarrivedlate. Turns out, it's by the same woman, Keri Smith! I thought, what a wonderful idea! But I am terrible at keeping a journal. So what if I turned this into inspiration for snail mail? Sort of like the mailtag that Erin sent me. Voila! Inspiration!

Vintage Postcard of the Week - #2 - Best Wishes

For as long as my stash lasts, I'll be posting a vintage postcard every Sunday.

Printed in Germany
Before we hated Germany, and before you needed an address to send someone a letter.
I'm guessing Aug 8, 1899 (from the stamp I can barely read)
sent from Stuart, Nebraska to Badger? Nebr (there is no town in Nebraska named Badger, according to google maps)

Henk

From Henk in the Netherlands!
Received 10 September 2012

NL-1412235

Costa Rica

Outgoing mail!

Erick from Costa Rica, I found him on sendsomething, but he's also on postcrossing and has his own postcard blog! Sending him a Denver postcard (8 September 2012)

Puzzletter

I love finding new ideas on the interwebs. Here is a lovely idea I got from Laura over at Please Deliver To. She received a puzzletter. What on earth is THAT?!? Well, here are her photos:

Buy or make a puzzle, and write a letter on the back while it is still together. Then, break it apart and send it. They have to put the puzzle together to see what you wrote! How neat is that?

State Bingo!

Creating those maps a while ago gave me the idea of a state bingo (an idea stolen from Where's George). Basically, I'd like to send/receive postcards to/from each state by Christmas 2012.

I though Montana would be the hardest, so I started there first. My idea was to search for the state using sendsomething, but there are no active users from Montana! So, I found an avid Montanan user on postcrossing and sent her a message, and she graciously agreed to help me with my state bingo.

Here's the postcard she sent me:

This has to be my favorite viewcard I've ever received. It shows so much, and the contrast makes it 10 times more visually interesting than most viewcards. Thank you so much Brenda!

And this is the card I'm sending to her in return. She said likes witches, and this is the only witch in my stash:

From the Wizard of Oz

She also like knitting, and "would love to see images of where you live and things that you find beautiful!"
I always have the problem of wanting to multiple things. This is why I need more penpals.

Ban Self Doubt

Another letter from Erinbit!

Handmade envelope:

A quote (I love it!):

More things from my mailtag request:

Previous correspondence:

Franz, Adelaide and the Bishop of Bamberg
MailTag!